Gravitational force exerted by Brazilian tourist destinations on foreign air travelers |
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| Institution: | 1. Transport Engineering Program, COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil;2. Department of Tourism and Heritage, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Brazil;1. Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University, TA Jimbocho Building, Research Laboratory 501, 1-1 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0064, Japan;2. School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.A;3. Environmental Sciences for Sustainability, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan;1. Latin American Center for Transportation Economics, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil;2. Institute for Applied Economic Research, Brazil;3. Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | This article analyses the context of international tourist flows by air and tourism in Brazil, by applying the principles of the gravity model. The study includes 13 Brazilian international airports that served 108 origin-destination pairs, which accounted for 80.14% of the total tourist flows by air in 2012. In the statistical analysis applied, the dependent variable Ft is the tourist flow between the country of origin and the Brazilian state of destination. To approximate an explanatory equation, we formulated a linear function that was able to support, in 31.7% of the cases, the dependence of the international tourist flows with the variables considered in the linear regression performed. The conclusion is that the assumptions considered in this study only partially explain the gravitational force exerted by Brazilian tourist destinations, so there is a need to refine the model by including other variables that can influence the flows by air of international tourists. |
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| Keywords: | Air transport Regionalisation Tourism Gravity model |
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